David Cunningham

Alphabet

Description

Numbered and signed copy

Alphabet consists of 26 volumes, exactly the number of letters in the Roman alphabet. Each volume proposes 97 distinct combinations of 26 letters, producing a total of 2522 different alphabetical series. These letters succeed one another in small writing in a horizontal line that scores the middle of every page. Alphabet’s sequences defy all alphabetical understanding and, now and again, thanks to the reader's contribution, a random fragment offers a recognizable word. The only series in alphabetical order runs on the spine of each volume, laboriously, yet playfully hand-written by a young four-year old girl.